[Peace-discuss] Everybody Loves Me Baby

[E.Wayne Johnson]

A second-person response to that Everybody Loves Me Baby guy
or maybe a even more Mussolini-esque character is given in 
a perhaps obscure song by the obscure and prolific Syd Barrett protege'
Robyn Hitchcock.  "Mexican God":  

Chip-chip-chipper up in the crow's nest
Upside down face but it still saw a lot
Flaking off, breaking off, crumbled and cracking
Time will destroy you like a Mexican god

Dreaming your eyes away, closed to the future
Pray for amnesia to finish you off
This is the evil I wished on so many
Time will destroy you like a Mexican god

Moon in a cup, crushed garlic and babies
Sailors all stagnant and bloating and rough
The horror of you floats so close by my window
At least when I die, your memory will too

Cruel, magnificent, roasting your people
I am secure at the end of your rod
Cut out my heart and it flies to the ceiling
Time will destroy you like a Mexican god
Time will destroy you like a Mexican god
Time will destroy you

*****
This cover hits the guitar licks quite well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNEJVeS1Z04
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: David Green 
  To: John W. 
  Cc: Peace Discuss 
  Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 8:20 AM
  Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Everybody Loves Me Baby


  Yes, I wonder too, but not really all that much. McLean was (is) an excellent songwriter and performer, with a wide range thematically, stylistically, and vocally. He liked not ever having to work again after American Pie, but it probably prejudiced a lot of people towards him. By the way, I'll be playing this song on News from Neptune, radio version, Saturday at 10 on WEFT.




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  From: John W. <jbw292002 at gmail.com>
  To: David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com>
  Cc: Peace Discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
  Sent: Mon, July 26, 2010 6:56:08 PM
  Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Everybody Loves Me Baby


  Wow!  I've always hated Don McLean's music, never came across this song.  Who knew that he was right up there as a songwriter with Bob Dylan?  I wonder why this one didn't become more popular with the anti-war crowd?


   
  On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 6:49 PM, David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com> wrote:

   
    Don McLean wrote this song in 1971, the same year he wrote the obviously more popular but not nearly as good "American Pie." The satirical allegory is intended:


    Fortune has me well in hand, armies 'wait at my command
    My gold lies in a foreign land buried deep beneath the sand
    The angels guide my ev'ry tread, my enemies are sick or dead
    But all the victories I've led haven't brought you to my bed

    CHORUS:
    You see, everybody loves me, baby, what's the matter with you?
    Won'tcha tell me what did I do to offend you?

    Now the purest race I've bred for thee to live in my democracy
    And the highest human pedigree awaits the first-born boy baby
    And my face on ev'ry coin engraved, the anarchists are all enslaved
    My own flag is forever waved by the grateful people I have saved

    CHORUS:
    You see, everybody loves me, baby, what's the matter with you?
    Won'tcha tell me what did I do to offend you?

    Now, no land is beyond my claim when land is seized in the people's name
    By evil men who rob and maim, if war is hell, I'm not to blame!
    Why, you can't blame me, I'm Heaven's child, I'm the second son of Mary mild
    And I'm twice removed from Oscar Wilde, but he didn't mind, why, he just smiled

    Yes, and the ocean parts when I walk through, and the clouds dissolve and the sky turns blue
    I'm held in very great value by everyone I meet but you
    'cause I've used my talents as I could, I've done some bad, I've done some good
    I did a whole lot better than they thought I would so, c'mon and treat me like you should!

    Because everybody loves me, baby, what's the matter with you?
    tell me what did I do to offend you? <whoo, yeah!>

    Everybody loves me, baby, what's the matter with you?
    tell me what did I do to offend you?

    Yeah, everybody loves me, baby, what's the matter with you?
    tell me what did I do to offend you?




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